Saturday, November 7, 2009

In the wake of marriage equality being defeated in Maine, and the one year anniversary of the passage of proposition 8, activists are holding protests throughout the country to express their outrage that the majority has the right to deny civil rights to a minority population.

*Please notify me of any planned protests, vigils, or demonstrations and I will promptly add them to the list and keep it up to date.

music thank you, there was a facebook group with those dates, hopefully someone will update and make sure to announce the correct day and i will update and make that known. thats the problem with grassroots organizing.

Tahlib I think both are effective and necessary. I started a campaign a while back trying to engage people through online forums, etc but very few participated. I wish they did, I don't know why it didn't take off. I can bring it back but I don't know why nobody heeds the call.

REACTION TO GAY APARTHEID IN MAINENew York City Residents Protest this Sunday, November 8, 2009 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Join supporters of equality outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral this Sunday to show those who oppose equality the faces of their discrimination. Stepping beyond the comfort zones of rallies and marches we take our message directly to the people and one of the organizations that have brought about gay apartheid in the United States.

Protesters should come with signs and their voices. This is a peaceful demonstration, but the anger against the members of the Catholic Church in New York City, who helped by their affiliation to the Catholic Church in Maine pass the hateful Question 1 in Maine yesterday need to know that no longer can we live as a nation that is separate and not equal.

Protest participants are also encouraged to call their U.S. elected officials at 202-224-3121 and tell them that supporting gay apartheid on all fronts is wrong. It is against the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution.

Protest Details can be found below and at:www.tinyurl.com/gayapartheidprotest

Alan L. Bounville is an organizational oppression and LGBTQI activist and graduate student at New York University in New York City. His current project, encouraging the fifth largest employer in his former city, Orlando, FL to provide domestic partner benefits, create a multicultural office and open the dialogue about diversity can be found at: www.ohdi.blogspot.com.

@Queers United @Curtis Morrison: To get into deeper conversations, we need to Out ourselves everyday as gay and as supporters of marriage equality, and I don't mean online. I mean at Walmart, the gas station and at church. Then invite them to coffee to talk about why you agree or disagree. Disagreeing doesn't mean being disagreeable. Protests don't change anyone's mind. They just give people who are afraid to talk 1:1 an excuse to say they are doing something. If you want the comradery and TV coverage, go protest but then go out an have a deep conversation.

To get into deeper conversations, we need to out ourselves everyday as gay and as supporters of marriage equality, and I dont mean online. I mean at Walmart, the gas station and at church. @Queers United @Curtis Morrison: Then invite them to coffee to talk about why you agree or disagree. Disagreeing doesnt mean being disagreeable. Protests don't change anyone's mind. They just give people who are afraid to talk 1:1 an excuse to say they are doing something. If you want the comradery and TV coverage, go protest but then go out an have a deep conversation.

discontinue using the words queer , lesbians, etc,... branded by government and blatant discrimination, and stick to the inequality, discrimination issues,as tax abiding citizens demanding respect and equal rights, this issue will go down as fight with dignity. i refused to be branded or called by anything less then my birth given name and right. i would love to march and will continue to stand for our rights as a nation, however i will not march, in a march that represents itself and continues to brand us as Queer is unacceptable and is never going to happen. that is old school mentality and i find this insulting.